Business involvements and clients

Business involvements

Visual Connections

Marketing company that connects licensors of photography, illustration and footage with commercial buyers. Its main activity is to run an annual trade show in New York.

Co-Founder and Co-President (with Deborah Free) 2009–
Specified, developed and maintain:
  • Website
  • Searchable, member-maintained directory of image suppliers
  • Contact management system
  • Event management system for exhibitors and attendees
  • Bulk personalised email manager and editor
  • Client image/artwork upload facility
  • Customer/prospect analysis reports
Other responsibilities:
  • Business strategy and development
  • Marketing communications
  • Venue floor planning

OSoLiS

E-commerce business serving software authors by collecting payments and issuing licences for programs distributed online.

Founder and President 1998–2012
Specified, developed and maintained:
  • Website
  • Online payment interfaces
  • Accounting and reporting systems
  • Customer and author account management tools
  • Contact management system
  • Bulk personalised email manager and editor
Other responsibilities:
  • Business startup and registration
  • Patent application
  • Contract writing
  • Customer support
  • Accounting & tax returns
  • Marketing communications
  • Documentation

Young Photographers Alliance

An educational foundation providing mentoring, scholarships and other support to emerging photographers in North America, UK and other countries.

Co-Founder and Vice-President 2009–2012
Specified, developed and maintained:
  • Contact management system
  • Image gallery maintenance tools
  • Bulk personalised email manager and editor

Bookmark Buddy

Windows program for managing collections of bookmarks/favourites and associated logins.

Inventer and developer 1998–
Responsible for:
  • Development
  • Marketing
  • Customer support

Major consultancy clients

The National Trust

Non-governmental organisation responsible for acquiring, conserving and giving access to over 300 historic buildings, 250,000 hectares of countryside and 700 miles of coastline around England and Wales.

Consultant on:
  • Commissioning a new public website for the organisation
  • Choosing a Content Management System
  • Building an events database for the website
  • Building an internal publications ordering system
  • Writing and reviewing supplier contracts

Look and Learn

Picture library specialising in historical, cultural and educational illustrations. Also runs an international children’s art competition and online gallery.

Specified, developed and maintain:
  • Website for commercial/educational image library
  • Website for children’s art competition gallery
  • Searchable archive of The Children’s Newspaper
  • Contact management system
  • Personalised printable certificate generation
  • Bulk personalised email manager and editor
  • User image upload facility
  • Library asset management tools
  • Customer analysis reports

Other consultancy clients